Whose Countryside? Power and inequality in rural Britain
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Location: Ginger's Cafe, Dance City, Temple Street, Newcastle NE1 4BR
At this Cafe Politique event, Professor Mark Shucksmith, director of the Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal and former Commission for Rural Communities board member, argues that our idyllic view of rural areas blinds us to the hidden poverty and social exclusion which threatens one in three people.
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